• California Supreme Court steps in on AI-hallucinated prosecutor brief

    Daily Journal
    January 16, 2026

    (Subscription required) In the first case of its kind to reach the Supreme Court, justices directed the 3rd District Court of Appeal to reconsider sanctions over a brief containing fabricated citations in a criminal case.

  • California Supreme Court Orders Sanctions Review of DA Accused of Using Hallucinating AI

    The Recorder
    January 16, 2026

    (Subscription required) California’s Supreme Court this week told a lower court to consider sanctioning a district attorney for allegedly including fake, artificial intelligence-generated citations in a case filing.

  • Arbitration subpoena fight puts new California discovery rules to the test

    Daily Journal
    January 15, 2026

    (Subscription required) The petition seeks to compel Wolfire Games to comply with an arbitrator-issued subpoena, testing statutory changes that expanded arbitrators' authority to obtain third-party discovery.

  • Parolees May Be Entitled to Resentencing Relief After Release

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    January 15, 2026

    Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has held that a defendant, who has been identified as eligible for resentencing under a provision that contemplates such reconsideration if the accused’s initial sentence includes a now-defunct prior-prison enhancement, is not foreclosed from securing relief by virtue of having been released on parole before the hearing takes place even though the statute references inmates “currently serving a term.”